Course Overview

Linux Fundamentals Course Overview

This Linux Operating System and Bash Shell Programming training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the LINUX Operating System. The most commonly used commands are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Bash shell are introduced.

This course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing shell scripts. Most of the built-in Bash shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. This course is not suitable for C shell programmers.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Linux Professional Institute (LPI) curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to work productively in a LINUX environment to develop and customise shell programs.

Course Content

Linux Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM

  • A brief history of UNIX / Linux
  • The UNIX / Linux kernel
  • The UNIX / Linux file system structure
  • File and directory management commands
  • Absolute vs Relative Pathnames
  • Further basic commands
  • Exercise: Navigating the file system

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

  • Command line syntax
  • Basic file handling commands
  • Basic Directory handling commands
  • Filename wildcard characters
  • Using commands with logical AND and OR
  • Sequential command execution
  • Exercise: Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

  • Input and Output redirection
  • Redirecting errors
  • Piping commands
  • Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities

Linux Fundamentals Training Course

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Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi/Vim EDITOR

  • Overview of the vi/Vim editor
  • The language of vi
  • Undoing and Redoing changes
  • Input Mode and Last Line Mode
  • Further vi functions
  • Executing commands within vi / Vim
  • Customising the vi / Vim Environment
  • Getting Help
  • Exercises: Using the vi editor

Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

  • Searching and replacing text using the vi/Vim editor
  • Using regular expressions (regex)
  • Using sed for search and replace
  • Searching for text with grep,egrep and fgrep
  • Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

  • Overview
  • The bash shell
  • The korn shell
  • Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

  • Users and user groups
  • File access permissions
  • Changing file attributes
  • Switching users and user groups
  • Linking files
  • Exercise: Setting and access permissions

Linux Fundamentals Training Course

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Session 8: FILTERING AND FORMATTING TEXT

  • Overview
  • The paste command
  • The cut command
  • An introduction to awk
  • The nl command
  • Exercises: Filtering Text

Session 9: PROCESSES

  • What is a process?
  • Monitoring processes
  • Killing processes
  • Background processes
  • Job Control
  • Grouping commands
  • Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes

Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

  • Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
  • Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
  • Exercise: Setting up an environment

Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

  • The find command
  • Using xargs command
  • The locate command
  • The df command
  • The cut command
  • The sort command
  • Finding duplicate content
  • Number sequencing
  • Exercise: More Basic Commands

Linux Fundamentals Training Course

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Session 12: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation characters and regular expressions (regex)
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 13: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 14: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 15: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 16: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 17: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 18: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

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Session 19: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a ‘for’ loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the ‘while’ loop

Session 20: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 21: SCRIPTING WITH AWK

  • Fundamentals of AWK
  • Basic AWK scripts
  • AWK within Bash constructs
  • Exercise: AWK scripts

Session 22: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 23: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Appendix A: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays

Appendix B: VIM QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix C: UNIX COMMANDS QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix D: ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Course Overview

This course is designed to teach the basics of the Linux environment. Class activities include accessing a system, navigating the directory hierarchy, using the vi editor, using common commands, tools, and scripting concepts.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

On Completion of this course, the student should be able to:

  • Log in to an Linux system and set a user password
  • Use Linux online documentation
  • Use the vi editor
  • Manage Linux files and directories
  • Describe the purpose of the shell
  • Execute common Linux commands and manage Linux processes
  • Customize the working environment
  • Use common Linux utilities
  • Write simple shell scripts

Course Content

Unit 1: Getting started with Linux

     Exercise 1: Using the system

Unit 2: The vi editor

     Exercise 2: The vi editor

Unit 3: Files and directories

     Exercise 3: Files and directories

Unit 4: Using files

     Exercise 4: Using files

Unit 5: File permissions

     Exercise 5: File permissions

Unit 6: Shell basics

     Exercise 6: Shell basics

Unit 7: Using shell variables

     Exercise 7: Using shell variables

Unit 8: Processes

     Exercise 8: Processes

Unit 9: Customizing the user environment

     Exercise 9: Customizing the user environment

Unit 10: Linux utilities

     Exercise 10: Linux utilities

Course Overview

Linux Bash Shell Programming Course Overview

The Linux Bash Shell Programming course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing Bash shell scripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. The course also gives practical experience using a range of Linux tools to manipulate text and incorporate into Linux Bash shell scripts.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to develop and customise shell programs and to make effective use of a wide range of standard Linux programming and development tools.

Course Content

Linux Bash Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation characters
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 2: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 3: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 4: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercises: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 5: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 6: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 7: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

Linux Bash Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 8: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a ‘for’ loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the ‘while’ loop

Session 9: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 10: SCRIPTING WITH AWK

  • Fundamentals of AWK
  • Basic AWK scripts
  • AWK within Bash constructs
  • Exercise: AWK scripts

Session 11: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Creating a Function Library
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 12: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Appendix A: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays

Appendix B: VIM QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix C: UNIX COMMANDS QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix D: ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Linux Bash Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 13: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

  • Backing-up and restoring files
  • Basic and advanced use of tar
  • Compression utilities gzip,bzip2,zip and compress
  • Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
  • Exercises: Compressing files

Session 14: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING

  • Scheduling jobs with the cron command
  • Scheduling jobs with the at command
  • Exercises: Running background jobs

Session 15: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES

  • Compare files with the cmp command
  • Compare and format files with pr
  • Compare files with the comm command
  • Compare files with the diff and sdiff commands
  • Compare large files with the bdiff command
  • Exercises: Identifying file differences

Session 16: SPLITTING FILES

  • The fold command
  • Split files using context and content rules
  • Exercises: Splitting files

Linux Bash Shell Programming Training Course

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Session 17: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS

  • od – octal dump
  • Use cat to display non-printing characters
  • View and format files with nl
  • The expand and unexpand commands to convert between tab and space characters
  • The tr command for character translation
  • Exercises: Translating characters with tr

Session 18: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION REVIEW

  • Standard regular expressions
  • Searching with grep
  • Metacharacters,positional characters and quantifiers
  • Extended regular expressions
  • POSIX character classes
  • PERL expressions

Session 19: THE STREAM EDITOR sed

  • sed command line syntax
  • sed script files
  • sed command processing
  • sed addresses and simple instructions
  • sed pattern space and hold space
  • Grouping sed commands
  • Hold and get functions
  • Advanced flow control
  • Write output to temporary files
  • Exercises: Text processing with sed

Session 20: FUNDAMENTALS OF AWK

  • Basic AWK usage
  • AWK program-files
  • AWK scripts
  • AWK variables
  • Pattern matching with AWK
  • AWK extended patterns

Session 21: AWK OPERATORS

  • AWK operators
  • AWK arithmetic operations
  • AWK output
  • Formatting output with printf
  • Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports

Linux Bash Shell Programming Training Course

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Session 22: AWK PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES

  • The BEGIN and END functions
  • The AWK if construct
  • The AWK else if construct
  • The AWK while construct
  • Other program control statements
  • The AWK break,continue and exit statements
  • User defined functions
  • Exercises: Create AWK scripts and program-files utilising program control structures

Session 23: AWK FUNCTIONS

  • AWK string functions
  • AWK length,tolower,toupper,index,sub,gsub,match,substr,split,sprintf,system and getline functions
  • Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions

Session 24: AWK ARRAYS

  • AWK associative arrays
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports

Session 25: MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS

  • bc (calculator)
  • fuser (testing for files in use)
  • getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
  • printf (formatting screen output)
  • logger (script logging)
  • xargs (generating arguments for a command)
  • eval (re-evaluating variables)
  • Exercises: Using tools within a shell script

Course Overview

Linux Automation with Ansible Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led Linux Automation with Ansible training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the concepts and use of Linux Ansible Automation. With a strong emphasis on practical hands-on training using the command line,this course will teach Ansible automation techniques to perform remote administration of Linux based systems.

This Linux Automation with Ansible course is based on the Red Hat-based distribution,the delegate will be able to apply the concepts covered on this course to other Linux based distributions.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat Linux curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

On completion of this Linux Automation with Ansible course the delegate will have gained practical experience of the skills required to install,configure and use Ansible for the purpose of enterprise orchestration,automation,configuration and management.

Course Content

Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO ANSIBLE

  • Ansible in steps
  • Ansible Overview

Session 2: DEPLOYING ANSIBLE

  • Installing Ansible on RHEL-based systems
  • Installing Ansible on Debian-based systems
  • Authenticating Ansible with SSH keys
  • Ansible configuration
  • Creating the Ansible Inventory
  • Ansible client configuration
  • Exercise

Session 3: AD-HOC COMMANDS

  • Generating an ad-hoc command
  • Command line options
  • Module documentation
  • Using modules with ad-hoc commands
  • Verifying Ansible syntax
  • stat and shell modules
  • Specifying an alternate Inventory
  • Exercise

Session 4: YAML

  • YAML basics
  • Common YAML syntax errors
  • Writing YAML with vim
  • Installing and configuring code editors
  • Exercise

Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 5: PLAYBOOKS AND TASKS

  • What is a playbook
  • Playbook header
  • Tasks within a playbook
  • Importing items and playbooks
  • Playbook best practices
  • Exercise

Session 6: SIMPLE PLAYBOOKS

  • Basic Ansible modules
  • file module
  • lineinfile module
  • copy module
  • archive module
  • Exercise

Session 7: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION PLAYBOOKS

  • Playbook command line options
  • Playbook tags
  • System administration modules
  • service module
  • firewalld module
  • user module
  • Exercise

Session 8: FURTHER ANSIBLE PLAYBOOKS

  • Further Ansible modules
  • parted module
  • mount module
  • cron module
  • Security related modules
  • seboolean module
  • SELinux module
  • seport module
  • Exercise

Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course

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Session 9: VARIABLES AND FACTS

  • Simple variables
  • List and Dictionary methods
  • Defining variable locations
  • Variables within external files
  • Command line variables
  • Ansible prompts
  • Registering variables
  • Using module return values
  • Capturing Ansible failures
  • Iteration using lists
  • Ansible facts
  • Commonly used Ansible facts
  • Using facts within a task
  • Using conditional statements with Facts
  • Exercise

Session 10: ROLES AND TEMPLATES

  • Ansible roles
  • Ansible Galaxy command
  • Role directory structure
  • Constructing an Ansible Role
  • Constructing a File Template
  • Ansible Galaxy repository
  • Downloading and executing Roles
  • Exercise

Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 11: FURTHER CONFIGURATION

  • Ansible Parallelism and Forks
  • Fact Caching
  • Ansible Vault
  • Creating and accessing the Vault
  • Encrypting variables
  • Ansible client and server logging
  • Omitting and redirecting log output
  • Error handling and ignoring failed commands
  • Handlers and failures
  • Exercise

Session 12: LOOPS AND SCRIPTING

  • Ansible loops
  • Looping through variables
  • Number sequencing
  • Random values
  • Retries
  • Ansible within shell scripts
  • Menu driven and copy scripts

Course Overview

Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Course Overview

This instructor led Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) training course is designed to teach the advanced administration,security,networking and performance tasks required on a Linux Enterprise system.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Linux Professional Institute (LPI) curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course the delegate will have in-depth technical knowledge of what is required to administer Linux within the Enterprise. They will have gained practical experience of configuring administrative,networking and security aspects of a Linux Enterprise system to an advanced level.

Course Content

Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: ADVANCED NETWORK CONFIGURATION & TROUBLESHOOTING

  • Configuring the network card
  • Network scripts
  • Configuring routing
  • Network troubleshooting and related tools
  • The radvd Router Advertisement Daemon
  • Exercise

Session 2: APACHE,SQUID AND NGINX

  • Apache main configuration files
  • Apache server and access configuration
  • Configuring secure Apache (https)
  • Configuring IP address-based virtual hosts
  • Configuring name-based virtual hosts
  • Configuring Apache for user-based content
  • Configuring the Squid proxy server
  • Configuring client browsers
  • Squid security settings
  • Nginx Proxy and Reverse Proxy
  • Exercise

Session 3: NFS NETWORK SERVICES

  • NFS operation and associated daemons
  • Configuring an NFS server
  • Investigating the portmapper
  • Configuring an NFS client
  • Mounting NFS filesystems at boot
  • Using the automounter to access NFS mounts on demand
  • Configuring AutoFS direct and indirect mounts
  • Creating AutoFS units
  • Exercise

Session 4: SAMBA

  • Configuring a Samba server
  • Testing the Samba configuration (testparm)
  • Configuring Samba users
  • Mapping Windows and Samba users
  • Starting Samba
  • Managing Windows filesystems (smbmount,nmblookup)
  • Accessing Windows shares
  • Exercise

Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Training Course

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Session 5: THE DOMAIN NAME SERVER

  • DNS operation
  • Types of DNS Servers
  • Domain Name Space
  • Setting up a DNS master and slave server
  • Server configuration files (named.conf and databases)
  • DNS resource record formats
  • Configuring DNS logging
  • Configuring DNS security
  • Testing DNS resolution
  • Configuring DNS Clients
  • Exercise

Session 6: DHCP

  • Configuring DHCP
  • dhcpd.conf configuration file
  • DNS entries
  • Address leases
  • DHCP client configuration
  • Exercise

Session 7: FTP

  • Configuring a VSFTPD server
  • Configuring FTP
  • Configuring Pure-FTPd
  • Configuring ProFTPd
  • Active vs Passive mode
  • vsftpd.conf configuration file
  • Anonymous access
  • Restricting access to the user’s login directory
  • FTP logfile
  • Exercise

Session 8: CENTRALISED STORAGE WITH ISCSI

  • Definition and benefits of iSCSI
  • Configuring an iSCSI target and initiator
  • Configuring iSCSI via YaST
  • Exercise

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Session 9: FILESYSTEM TOOLS AND DISK MONITORING

  • Converting Ext filesystems to Btrfs
  • Checking and repairing Btrfs filesystems
  • Creating Btrfs subvolumes and snapshots
  • Performing full and incremental backups of XFS filesystems
  • Querying the backup repository
  • Restoring XFS filesystems
  • The ZFS filesystem
  • Configuring smartd
  • Disk monitoring with smartctl
  • Exercise

Session 10: RAID

  • RAID overview
  • Raw devices and partitions
  • Creating and managing a RAID device
  • Creating and mounting a file system within RAID
  • Hot swapping failed drives
  • Exercise

Session 11: LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT (LVM)

  • Logical Volume Management Overview
  • Viewing LVM information
  • Configuring LVM
  • Creating striped logical volumes
  • Resizing Logical Volumes
  • Logical Volume Snapshots
  • The role of the Device Mapper
  • Configuring the lvm.conf file
  • Exercise

Session 12: DIRECTORY SERVICES

  • Structure of an LDAP Tree
  • Configuring 389 Directory Services
  • Managing Directory Server Users
  • Testing the Directory Server
  • Configuring the Client
  • Legacy LDAP Commands
  • Secure LDAPS with Directory Server
  • Exercise

Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 13: COMPILING SOFTWARE FROM SOURCE

  • Installing programs from source
  • Compiling Open Source Software
  • Installing the compiled software
  • Managing shared libraries
  • Compiling from SRC (source) RPM packages
  • Exercise

Session 14: SYSTEM MONITORING & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

  • System performance monitoring
  • Collecting system performance information
  • Monitoring memory usage
  • Measuring virtual memory
  • Measuring I/O performance
  • Performance Guidelines
  • Performance monitoring tools
  • Capacity planning
  • Exercise

Session 15: FIREWALL CONFIGURATION

  • Basic packets and routing
  • Netfilter (iptables)
  • Packet filtering (iptables,chains,rule targets,connection tracking)
  • Saving and restoring firewall settings
  • Network address translation (NAT)
  • Exercise

Session 16: SYSTEM SECURITY

  • Reporting security alerts
  • Applying security related patches
  • Installing and configuring a Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)
  • Installing and configuring fail2ban
  • Exercise

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Session 17: PLUGGABLE AUTHENTICATION MODULES (PAM)

  • Main PAM configuration files
  • Configuration file formats
  • Controlling user access using the configuration files
  • Configuring pam_listfile
  • Controlling time-based access with PAM
  • Controlling limits with PAM
  • Exercise

Session 18: POSTFIX

  • Configuring a Postfix server
  • Postfix TLS configuration
  • Configuring Dovecot
  • Managing email delivery
  • Filtering emails
  • Exercise

Session 19: THE LINUX KERNEL

  • Kernel naming conventions
  • Monolithic and Modular kernel design
  • Listing modules
  • Kernel module configuration
  • Kernel tuning
  • The GRUB2 Bootloader
  • Installing an alternate Kernel
  • Exercise

Session 20: HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

  • Hotplug system
  • Devices and Interfaces
  • sysfs filesystem and persistent names
  • Device initialisation and interface configuration
  • Hotplug and Coldplug
  • UDEV system
  • Exercise

Addendum: Reference Materials (provided within the course handbook for additional reading)

APPENDIX A – CONFIGURING APACHE FOR PHP AND TOMCAT

  • Configuring Apache Web Server to support PHP and Tomcat

APPENDIX B – BASIC OPENVPN

  • Accessing a private network with OpenVPN

APPENDIX C – RAIDTOOLS

  • Old style raidtools package

APPENDIX D – ALTERNATE BOOT LOADERS

  • An overview of SYSLINUX and ISOLINUX
  • Booting with PXELINUX

APPENDIX E – DRACUT

  • Managing the Linux boot process with dracut

APPENDIX F – APPARMOR

  • Enabling and disabling AppArmor
  • AppArmor monitoring tools
  • Building and modifying AppArmor profiles
  • Logging AppArmor
  • AppArmor Options
  • Exercise

Course Overview

Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools Course Overview

The Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of Linux tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into Linux shell scripts.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

Course objectives

To provide the knowledge and skills to make effective use of a wide range of standard Linux programming and development tools.

Course Content

Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

  • Backing-up and restoring files
  • Basic and advanced use of tar
  • Compression utilities gzip,bzip2,zip and compress
  • Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
  • Exercises: Compressing files

Session 2: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING

  • Scheduling jobs with the cron command
  • Scheduling jobs with the at command
  • Exercises: Running background jobs

Session 3: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES

  • Compare files with the cmp command
  • Compare and format files with pr
  • Compare files with the comm command
  • Compare files with the diff and sdiff commands
  • Compare large files with the bdiff command
  • Exercises: Identifying file differences

Session 4: SPLITTING FILES

  • The fold command
  • Split files using context and content rules
  • Exercises: Splitting files

Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 5: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS

  • od – octal dump
  • Use cat to display non-printing characters
  • View and format files with nl
  • The expand and unexpand commands to convert between tab and space characters
  • The tr command for character translation
  • Exercises: Translating characters with tr

Session 6: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION REVIEW

  • Standard regular expressions
  • Searching with grep
  • Metacharacters,positional characters and quantifiers
  • Extended regular expressions
  • POSIX character classes
  • PERL expressions

Session 7: THE STREAM EDITOR sed

  • sed command line syntax
  • sed script files
  • sed command processing
  • sed addresses and simple instructions
  • sed pattern space and hold space
  • Grouping sed commands
  • Hold and get functions
  • Advanced flow control
  • Write output to temporary files
  • Exercises: Text processing with sed

Session 8: FUNDAMENTALS OF AWK

  • Basic AWK usage
  • AWK program-files
  • AWK scripts
  • AWK variables
  • Pattern matching with AWK
  • AWK extended patterns

Session 9: AWK OPERATORS

  • AWK AND,OR and range operators
  • AWK arithmetic operations
  • AWK output
  • Formatting output with printf
  • Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports

Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 10: AWK PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES

  • The BEGIN and END functions
  • The AWK if construct
  • The AWK else if construct
  • The AWK while construct
  • Other program control statements
  • The AWK break,continue and exit statements
  • User defined functions
  • Exercises: Create AWK scripts and program-files utilising program control structures

Session 11: AWK FUNCTIONS

  • AWK string functions
  • AWK length,tolower,toupper,index,sub,gsub,match,substr,split,sprintf,system and getline functions
  • Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions

Session 12: AWK ARRAYS

  • AWK associative arrays
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports

Session 13: MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS

  • bc (calculator)
  • fuser (testing for files in use)
  • getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
  • printf (formatting screen output)
  • logger (script logging)
  • xargs (generating arguments for a command)
  • eval (re-evaluating variables)
  • Exercises: Using tools within a shell script

Course Overview

This course will teach you how to use shell scripts and utilities for practical system administration of AIX (or other UNIX) operating systems.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

You will have a firm grounding in the Perl language and be able to:

  • Write Perl scripts for data-processing, system administration, and other applications
  • Use modules from the Perl Module Library to improve your efficiency

Course Content

  • Basic shell concepts
  • Flow control in a shell Script
  • Functions and typeset
  • Shell features such as arithmetic and string handling
  • Using regular expressions
  • Using sed, awk and other AIX utilities

Course Overview

In this classroom course, you will learn basic concepts and skills you need to be productive users on the IBM i. With plenty of hands-on labs, we show everything from signing to the available user interfaces; green screen environment, System i Navigator and Systems Director Navigator for i. You will learn how objects are managed on the system and how you display these objects. You will learn to use Control Language (CL) commands (fast path) and how to work with and manage messages on the system. We will also address how the system manages work and how you manage your printouts. We will also provide a basic overview of security.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Explain the purpose of the IBM i operating systems
  • Explain IBM i models and generations
  • Explain which applications are supported
  • Sign on and off the system from a display station, System i Navigator, and Systems Director Navigator for i
  • Use the display station keyboard
  • Use the online help that is available
  • Use the different interfaces available on the system
  • Understand how objects are managed on the system
  • Enter control language (CL) commands
  • Send and receive messages and work with message queues
  • Manage work and output
  • Explain basic security

Course Content

  • Welcome
  • Unit 1 – Introduction and overview to IBM i
  • Unit 2 – Signing on and off the system
  • Unit 3 – Using supported interfaces
  • Unit 4 – Using online help
  • Unit 5 – Messages
  • Unit 6 – Using CL commands
  • Unit 7 – Managing objects
  • Unit 8 – Managing your work
  • Unit 9 – Security overview
  • Unit 10 – Additional education

Course Overview

This 2-day course provides essential HPE ProLiant training to system administrators who are responsible for ProLiant ML, DL, and BL servers. Students will be presented with an overview of HPE products, tools, agents, and utilities that will help them to set up, deploy, monitor, and maintain their ProLiant servers. Practical hands-on lab exercises are presented on an HPE ProLiant Gen8/9 server.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:


• Describe the HPE ProLiant Servers portfolio
• List key features of HPE ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) and Generation 9 (Gen9) servers
• Describe integrated Lights-Out (iLO), including the Web UI, iLO Integrated Remote Console (IRC), and iLO command line interface (CLI) and describe tools to assist in the configuration of iLO on a ProLiant server
• Describe the Gen8/9 ProLiant boot process and how to configure a server by using Option ROM (ROM-Based Setup Utility [RBSU]) and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
• Identify and use components that make up the iLO 4
• Explain how to use Intelligent Provisioning to configure and deploy an operating system to a single HPE ProLiant Gen8/9 server
• Explain how to use Smart Update Manager (SUM) and the Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) to update firmware and software on a ProLiant server
• Identify HPE tools and utilities that assist in the monitoring and maintenance of a ProLiant server
• Identify HPE websites that are helpful for the setup, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and support of a ProLiant server

Course Overview

Open standards in z/OS ­ describes the z/OS open systems server and teaches participants how to use UNIX system services from an end-user or application perspective.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Discuss the role of z/OS in an open systems environment
  • Understand basic UNIX terminology and how UNIX is implemented in z/OS
  • Define the components of z/OS UNIX services
  • Explain the major functions provided in z/OS UNIX services
  • Discuss opportunities for applications in an z/OS UNIX environment
  • Use the interactive interfaces available to access UNIX services

Course Content

  • Overview
  • Introduction to UNIX
  • Open functions in z/OS
  • Hierarchical file system
  • Shell and utilities
  • Application Services